Purpose: This study examines their hypotheses that adolescents raised in Conservative Protestants families would be less likely to be harmed by fathers’ authoritarian parenting than would adolescents raised according to another faith and/or discrepant parental faith beliefs.
Methods: The cross-sectional data known as Nonshared Environment and Adolescent Development Project (NEAD) was used in the research collected from 1998 to 1999. The observers assigned fathers four ratings,